From: Darryl Baird (dbaird@umflint.edu)
Date: 10/25/02-07:12:25 PM Z
Sandy,
Jon Cone gave a (B&W) film-by-film scanning comparison lately on the
piezography list. In short, as far as piezography goes, the more the
grain the worse the scan. Grain creates problems for the software's dot
pattern.
From my own experience, certain films grain structure seems to create
problems, especially if you sharpen. Kodak EPN comes to mind as a
particularly odious film for scanning. I'd be interested in hearing from
folks who have scanned Kodachrome and slower Ektachrome emulsions too.
I'd also like to see what comparisons between Kodacolor vs. Ektar would
tell.
-Darryl
Sandy King wrote:
>
> I asked this question on one of the newsgroups but am repeating it
> here since there are several people on the list who are pretty
> experienced with scanning. The question is, are some 35mm negative
> films better than others when the negatives are to be used for
> scanning and making digital prints and/or to make enlarged negatives
> for alt printing, or do the same considerations of grain and sharpness
> hold when scanning as when making prints in the darkroom? If some
> films are better than others for this purpose I would appreciate some
> explanation of the reasons.
>
> Sandy King
>
>
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